Toward an Integrated Plan for Digital Preservation and Access to Primary Anthropological Data (AnthroDataDPA): A Four-Field Workshop

该奖项支持创建一个全面的数字保存计划，并访问原始人类学数据，包括田野记录，照片，测量和记录。其目标是一个战略性的协调计划，包括数字化的方法和标准，数字对象的长期保存，道德标准和档案馆间的互操作性。如果没有一个协调的计划，数字访问的承诺将无法实现。该项目的第一步是举办一个由档案工作者、人类学家和技术专家参加的基础广泛的讲习班，以确定初级人类学数据战略综合计划的基本内容。第二步是分发计划大纲，充实细节，并在网上发布修订后的计划。第三步是与主要的人类学组织和从事或计划数字化和保存活动的组织联系，鼓励他们加入这一综合努力。研讨会与会者还将讨论资助未来工作的实际方法。数据保存和共享是所有研究的核心。数字时代和网络为人类学研究人员提供了分享研究材料的新机会，包括对不再存在的民族和文化的独特的第一手资料，其他人无法获得的资料，因为它们存在于人类学家的办公室，文件柜，计算机，实验室或有限访问的存储库中。数据共享取决于研究数据的保存。很多时候，原始人类学数据随着收集者的疾病或死亡而丢失给学术界。这是研究投资的潜在长期利益的损失，也是不可替代数据的损失。保存和获得世界各地人类生活的观察结果不仅对人类学和其他社会科学很重要。公众对了解人类状况的各个方面有着浓厚的兴趣。图书馆、档案馆、知识库和信息技术专家应该对数字保存和获取的协调计划的制定感兴趣，并可作为其他学科保存和获取计划的模式。

This award supports the creation of a comprehensive plan for digital preservation and access for primary anthropological data, including fieldnotes, photographs, measurements, and recordings. The goal is a strategic and coordinated plan that includes methods and standards for digitization, long-term preservation of digital objects, ethical standards, and inter-archive interoperability. Without a coordinated plan, the promise of digital access will not be achieved.The first step in this project to hold a broad-based workshop of archivists, anthropologists, and technology specialists to decide on the basics of a strategic integrated plan for primary anthropological data. The second step is to circulate the plan outline, flesh out the details, and disseminate a revised plan on the web. The third step is to liaison with major anthropological organizations and organizations engaged in or planning digital and preservation activities to encourage them to join this integrated effort. The workshop conferees will also discuss practical ways to fund future efforts.Data preservation and sharing are central to all research. The digital age and the web have given anthropological researchers new opportunities for sharing research materials, including unique firsthand accounts of peoples and cultures that no longer exist, accounts unavailable to others because they reside in anthropologists' offices, file cabinets, computers, laboratories, or in limited access repositories. Data sharing depends upon research data being preserved. All too often, primary anthropological data are lost to the scholarly world with the illness or death of the person who collected them. This is a loss of potential long-term benefit from research investment as well as loss of irreplaceable data.Preservation and access to the observations of human life around the world are not just important for anthropology and other social sciences. The public has a strong interest in understanding all aspects of the human condition. The development of a coordinated plan for digital preservation and access should be of interest to libraries, archives, repositories, and information technology specialists and may serve as a model for preservation and access programs in other disciplines.